RUSSIA - March 6 - Trade Feud With US.Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko says the poultry poultry, domesticated fowl kept primarily for meat and eggs; including birds of the order Galliformes, e.g., the chicken, turkey, guinea fowl, pheasant, quail, and peacock; and natatorial (swimming) birds, e.g., the duck and goose. imported from the US cause "excessive weight, high blood pressure and other health complaints". (His comments come amidst a·midst prep. Variant of amid. [Middle English amiddes : amidde; see amid + -es, adverbial suffix; see -s3.] wide-spread speculation that the import of the US poultry should be banned from March 10. Analysts say this is in response to the punitive pu·ni·tive adj. Inflicting or aiming to inflict punishment; punishing. [Medieval Latin p  n US duties on steel from Russia -
and elsewhere - announced by US Pres. Bush on March 5. Moscow will lose
$400m a year through the new US steel duties, while US farmers will lose
about $600m annually worth of poultry exports to Russia). But Shevchenko
says the ban "has nothing to do with any trade wars". US
Ambassador Alexander Vershbow Alexander "Sandy" Vershbow was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and attended the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School before moving on to Yale College, from which he graduated in 1974. said at a briefing that Moscow officials
had ignored US requests to discuss concerns about the poultry, leading
to the conclusion that the ban was "based more on protectionism protectionismPolicy of protecting domestic industries against foreign competition by means of tariffs, subsidies, import quotas, or other handicaps placed on imports. than on legitimate safety concerns". Earlier in the day, Vershbow was summoned to the foreign ministry to discuss Moscow's concerns about steel tariffs. |
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